opening scene of casino royale original movie

One of the great pleasures of the Bond series has been its opening prologues.

I have to break down the experience into segments, such as I'm about to do here. And rarely can I watch it from start to finish. Casino Royale is holding up as one of the defining films of the decade every time, I see it, I see something new. Only two years later, I'd say he more than got it right. While I was tongue-tied, and my colleagues were busy yammering over whether or not the torture sequence should have earned the film an an 'R' rating (oh, please), there was one critic, Owen Gleiberman, who had the balls (if you'll pardon the expression) to rank Casino Royale as the best movie of the year. Here was the latest entry in an increasingly passe franchise, helmed by a competent director-for-hire who had never made anything special, starring a character actor untested in a major role - and it was amazing. When I first saw Casino Royale two years ago, I was so stunned I could barely formulate a response.

Less discussed is whether an almost universally praised movie is even better than its admirers originally believed. There is often much hullaballoo over whether a good movie is actually bad or a bad movie is actually good.

Opening scene of casino royale original movie